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As I mentioned about a week ago, Ted had a stroke in early February. He had laid down in bed on a Friday night as we were getting ready to listen to our youngest son's (Alex) radio show from his college. Even though he's been doing a radio show for a year and a half, it was going to be streaming live for the first time and we were so excited to be able to listen to it.
After Alex introduced himself and the first song, Ted rolled onto his side and said, "What's wrong with me? What's going on?"
I thought he was just messing with me, so I asked him what he meant, then looked at him and saw his face all contorted. I went over to him and again thought he was just trying to trick me, so I told him I was going to call 9-1-1. After the fourth time I said it, I added, "I really mean it this time. I'm going to call right now."
And I did.
The dispatcher was absolutely wonderful. He told me to take Ted's hands and have him squeeze mine. He couldn't do it. Then the dispatcher had me ask Ted to smile. He couldn't do it. The dispatcher said that the ambulance was on its way. I hung up, got a robe on (yes I was in my nightclothes), went to the foyer to unlock the door and turn on some lights. When I got back to the bedroom, Ted was "with it" and asked me what was going on. I told him the ambulance was on their way. "For WHO???"
"You've been out of it for about 6 or 7 minutes."
He couldn't believe it.
When the paramedics got here, they were just great. They talked to him, checked his pulse ox and blood sugar. Both were fine. They asked me to describe what happened, and for those of you who know me in real life, you can attest to the fact that I gave a very detailed description. They asked him questions and he could answer them, however his left side was numb.
At some point during all this, I called Ted's brother Tim and told him what was going on. They live behind us and over a little. I figured that they would see the lights of the ambulance and wonder what was going on. Tim answered with "We're listening to Alex right now." Then I had to tell him why I really called. I asked him to call their sister, who lives next door to us, and fill her in since I was going to be leaving in a few minutes. Patty, Tim's wife, called back and said they'd go to the hospital with us. I appreciated the offer immensely, but by this time it was 10:30 pm and I wasn't going to drag them out of the house at that hour. I thanked them, then told them I'd keep them informed.
They were getting him ready to transport him to the hospital, and once he was on the cot, he asked the ultimate question....
"Are we going code three?"
I said, "He watches too much Adam-12."
They all laughed then and said it was probably going to be code two.
For those of you who are not Adam-12 aficionados, code three is lights and sirens; code two is just lights.
They left, I got dressed, made a couple of quick phone calls, stopped by my folks' place to pick up my mom (a retired RN who is a wealth of information), and got to the hospital not long after they did.
We were in the E.R. for quite a while, during which time Ted had blood work done, and a CT of the brain. Some time after 1:00 am, the E.R. doctor said that his blood work was good, his CT scan showed nothing unusual, and he felt that Ted had either a mini-stroke or a seizure. He also said they were going to admit him for observation.
Mom and I left shortly after that, and after I dropped her off, I came home and noticed on the caller I.D. that Alex had called a couple of times and knew that he would be concerned that we didn't answer the phone. I texted him and asked if he was still up. He was, and then he called.
I had to tell him what happened, then he said he was coming home even though it was the middle of the night. I told him to let me know when he got here, and at 3:30 am, he woke me up.
The next day we went to the hospital and Ted had a migraine. When he gets migraines, it's not pretty in the least. Alex went back home and got Ted's c-pap machine (for sleep apnea) and brought it in so Ted could get some good sleep. After a while, Ted started throwing up, which is normal for him when he has a migraine. After that, all he wanted to do was sleep.
Later that night I talked to him on the phone and he said he felt a lot better. He also said that there were some tests planned for him, but they hadn't told him when they would be.
Sunday morning he was released and on Monday morning I made appointments for an echocardiogram, carotid artery ultrasound, and an MRI of the brain. After that week of testing, we had to wait until the following week to get the results. The neurologist told us this....
"You had a stroke. Not a mini-stroke, but a stroke. However, it is recoverable. It will just take time."
Ted was a little upset when we left, but we sat on the bench outside the hospital and talked a little. I told him that this was the best news we could have gotten and he looked at me like I was crazy. Then I said that it was NOT an aneurysm; it was NOT a tumor; it was NOT multiple sclerosis; this was the best possible thing it could be AND he would more than likely completely recover from it. I told him we needed to start getting back to "normal," so we decided he could drive home instead of me.
Since then he has changed medical doctors and is almost finished with physical therapy and occupational therapy...two more sessions of each. The neurologist did not suggest the pt/ot, but the medical doctor did. It really has helped.
However, his left side is still numb and tingly. He also gets tired very easily, but it's much better than what it was. He used to take 4-5 naps a day, now it's only one.
He's a little on the grouchy side at times, but that's to be expected. He gets very frustrated at times, but again, that's to be expected. He still can't work, and that just adds to his frustration.
I just keep in mind that it could always be worse.


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ILO Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment
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From 2017 to 2020, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is working towards a standard on "ending violence and harassment against women and men in the world of work", through what is known as a "standard-setting" process. The eventual standard(s) adopted by the ILO may be a binding instrument, known as a Convention; non-binding guidance, known as a Recommendation; or a Convention accompanied by a Recommendation.
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We call upon people in our communities, in particular the employers, to hold hands with domestic workers in the "My Fair Home" campaign to ensure dignity and decent work to all domestic workers.
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The International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) in partnership with the International Labour Organization is excited to launch its communication network for domestic workers around the globe to connect with one another online.
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12 by 12 campaign, meaning that we campaign for twelve ratification of C 189 in 2012. Beyond the twelve, we will in addition, focus on those countries, which have been supportive during the ILO negotiations and in which we have active domestic workers' organizations. Only by building strong organizations of domestic workers, with broad based alliances, we will be able to make "decent work for domestic workers" a reality.

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Well, it's been months since I ran off to ASB and promised more blog posts, so it seems I should give an update.
I have had to focus on two major tasks since moving to Los Angeles (other than making my apartment livable and such): teaching human gross anatomy and starting work on a new team project in collective behavior and swarming.
I was hired by USC largely for my expertise in teaching anatomy, and so I was well aware of that schedule coming in. However, I have also taken on a second course, called Clinical Perspectives on Human Anatomy (MEDS 320) which is brand new (I'm building it from scratch). MEDS 320 is part of a new Minor in Health Care Studies at USC, which is basically an intensive pre-med supplement set of courses designed to get medical school bound undergraduates an edge for applications and their two years in an MD program. I am having a blast with it, but needless to say building the course has had to take priority over other things (such as blogging). If you're curious about the program, you can look here: http://dornsife.usc.edu/minor-in-health-care-studies/
The Collective Behavior bit may be a bit of a surprise to those that are used to me being "that pterosaur guy". To make a long story a bit shorter, I have an eclectic background in biomechanics, zoology, and anatomy (including 8 years of professional animal husbandry work), and those all ended up playing a role in my joining a three-person team to study swarm motion for the Navy. Our project, entitled "Biologically Inspired Human Supervision and Control of Agent Teams" was approved for funding over the summer, and the grant kicked in September 1st. This means I have rapidly retooled my schedule and research focus to some extent. I will be working with live animals (fish), and that requires a full on aquatic motion lab (thanks Office of Naval Research for funding that entire set-up; it's pretty darn awesome). In addition, I am working to get a hold of whatever existing data I can. This has left less time for flying things.
All that said, I will be getting back to working on Aero Evo as soon as I can. The dragon post(s) will be first, and then probably some reviews of recent cool papers regarding animal flight. In the longer term, this blog may end up being integrated with my new lab website (not active yet, so stay tuned on that front), and the material may begin to include some discussion of decision-making and swarm behavior for fairly obvious reasons. Don't be surprised if the visual scheme ends up evolving, as well.
I am off to the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology next week. I will be presenting on some animal flight related research (tail function in Microraptor gui), so that will also show up here at some point. I hope to have some material up before I leave, but it's hard to promise as much at this time.
Cheers everyone!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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From hawks to fish, eh? That's quite a drastic change!ReplyDelete
The hawks are still in there, too, but it turns out we need some larger, denser swarms as well. So I get fishies!ReplyDelete
Well, I envision future posts about fish launches and... err. No.ReplyDelete
I guess, I'll have Look forward to analysis of substrate and velocity on proximity-to-neighbor rules!
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Ellen DeGeneres received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last month, spurring feelings of déjà vu. Like the two previous honorees, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, she's a strong comic performer who perhaps unfairly jumped to the head of the (punch) line – especially considering the likes of Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Dick Gregory, among others, haven't notched the tribute.
Also near the top of our list of the deserving, but not in same age range, is Eddie Murphy, who in some respects has gotten a, well, raw deal in the comedy world he helped change. That's why we're thrilled, if not downright delirious, that he's being saluted Wednesday in a Spike TV tribute called, "Eddie Murphy: One Night Only."
The guest lineup, which includes Chris Rock, Adam Sandler and Tracy Morgan, brims with performers influenced by Murphy, who created the era of the comedy movie blockbuster – the laughter and box office echoes of "48 Hours" and "Beverly Hills Cop" resound today in "Bridesmaids" and the "Hangover" flicks.
Murphy got his start telling jokes in clubs at age 15 and became a TV superstar four years later on "Saturday Night Live" after John Belushi and the rest of the original cast left. Murphy's comic twists on throwback characters – Mr. Robinson (a Mr. Rogers parody), Gumby, Buckwheat, to name a few – helped forge the silly-smart comic sensibility of his time with talent and poise beyond his years.
He also quickly proved himself a standup great, clearly influenced by Richard Pryor, whom he outdid, at least at the box office. The Spike special ostensibly is a celebration of the upcoming 30th anniversary of Murphy's classic "Delirious," in which he donned a red leather jumpsuit and leaped into standup history (the bit recounting his aunt falling down stairs might be hardest we ever laughed). His honest, bawdy wit, imbued with just enough domestic grounding to give him wide appeal, flows through the standup of, among others Rock, Louis C.K. and Martin Lawrence, a guest on Wednesday's special.
But comedy, as Steve Martin told us, isn't pretty – success can be tough to sustain over numerous decades. Murphy, after a prolonged dry spell, came back strong in the mid-1990s with the "Nutty Professor" and "Dr. Dolittle" flicks. Younger generations know his voice as Donkey from the animated "Shrek" hits.
Still, his early triumphs created such great expectations that recent misfires ("Meet Dave" and "A Thousand Words") often are mercilessly eviscerated, along with reasonably funny films that suffer in comparison to the likes of "Trading Places" and "Coming to America" (admit it: the outrageous "Norbit" made you laugh).
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Murphy apparently became embittered when his critically lauded dramatic turn in 2006's "Dreamgirls" failed to secure him an Oscar. Speaking of the Oscars, plans for him to host the Academy Awards last year fell through, robbing him of an opportunity to shine on the world stage.
His recognition tends to come from peers, as with the Comedy Icon award he received last year from Comedy Central. Murphy, at 51, doesn't need the Oscars or the Twain award to prove his enduring impact on humor. His work – hopefully with more successes to come – and the long line of acolytes who followed him onto the stage tell the story, punch line and all. Check out a preview of Wednesday's special below:
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Cobra Moto Heads to Daytona
HILLSDALE, Mich., – Cobra Moto is headed down to Daytona Beach, Fla., to provide support to Cobra racers and their families for the fourth annual Monster Energy Ricky Carmichael Daytona Amateur Supercross Championship – part of the popular "Bike Week" festivities at Daytona International Speedway – March 10th & 11th.
"It's going to be great having Sean Hilbert join us this year at the Monster Energy Ricky Carmichael Daytona Amateur Supercross Championship," said MX Sports' Event Director Tim Cotter. "Anytime that you have the head person at an OEM at the event it's a big deal for us and it helps in so many ways. Sean will be able to give input to the racers and their families, as well as utilize the event for R&D for Cobra Moto."
Directly following the Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship round at the Speedway, Cobra Moto – pitted in Garage No. 1 in Daytona's famed NASCAR paddock – will be on hand to support the riders participating in RC's signature event, with help from one of its top Eastern Seaboard dealers – Maryland's Naecker's Cobra. Cobra Moto will also pay out contingency through its "Cobra Bucks" program to all 50cc and 65cc classes at Daytona.
"The Ricky Carmichael Amateur Supercross at Daytona is a great way for Cobra Moto families to experience Bike Week in a way like they've never been able to before," said Hilbert. "I'm looking forward to checking out the talent on the track this weekend and meeting with the racers and their families to help with any questions they have regarding the Cobra Moto products."
Also, don't forget your entry for the "Cobra Tales" video contest. For official Contest Rules, Submission Guidelines and Contest Eligibility link to our website at: http://www.cobramotorcycle.com/v2_2013videocontest.asp
Up next for Cobra: 2013 AMA Spring Classic Championships at Mill Creek Motocross Park, March 3-9, Pell City, Ala.


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Master's Programme in Open eGovernment, 120 credits
Master's programme in Open eGovernment provides you with planning, management and technical skills necessary for leading and transforming public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
The programme provides in-depth knowledge, including theories and practices, in areas such as e-service design and innovation, e-democracy, e-governance, requirement engineering, business process management and improvement, security and privacy in e-Government, ICT architecture, ICT system integration as well as project and change management. The programme also has a specific focus on business intelligence, decision support systems, and open and big data management for e-Government.
The master programme promotes a new role needed in public organisations, an e-Government architect, a role that has the knowledge and skills necessary to drive ICT enabled changes in the public sector. An e-Government architect combines knowledge about democratic processes, citizen service and public administration with skills in designing effective ICT systems and e-services for e-Government.
The master programme is inspired by the Swedish democratic model as well as models in the area of e-Government developed in Europe and the rest of the world.
Career | Distance studies | Outline | Requirements | Selection | Application
Graduates will find positions as enterprise and IT architects, project managers and change agents in public organisations as well as private and non-governmental organisations working within the area of e-Government. Graduates may also enter Ph.D. programmes for a research career.
Distance studies
All courses, assignments and exams will be available through our learning platform giving you the freedom to be location independent.
Note! A few seminars will be in the evening CET.
The programme is somewhat flexible but you need to follow the programme outline.
When the course is scheduled, you will get feedback, help and results on your assignment and group work from the teachers. If you decide not to take or complete one course, you have to wait until the next time the course is scheduled to take or finish it. Some courses are given only once a year.
The programme contains non-mandatory workshops, one each semester, at the campus in Kista. During these workshops, you will meet other students, teachers and experts in the area of e-Government. You will also have the opportunity to visit eGovlab, a centre for excellence in e-governance at Stockholm University.
Programme outline
The Master's Programme in Open e-Government is comprised of business and technology courses, all given as distance courses. Our programme curriculum is designed to propel you along a successful career path in the area of e-Government.
Complete outline for Master's Programme in Open e-Government
More information about the programme
Credits: 120
Language: English
Duration: 2 years
Study pace: 100%
Study form: Distance
Begins: Autumn
Degree: Degree of Master of Science (120 credits). Main Field of Study: Computer and Systems Sciences.
Education plan
Qualification requirement
A Bachelor degree or a degree equal to 180 ECTS.
Students with less than 90 ECTS in computer and systems sciences (e.g., computer science, systems science, informatics, information systems etc.) will start with a bridging course in computer and system sciences (15 credits) as part of the programme to get the needed background knowledge in the area of computer and systems sciences.
Language proficiency
Swedish upper secondary school course English B/English 6 or:
- IELTS (International English Language Testing Service)- Academic Module: Overall minimum score of 6.5 (with no section below 5.5).
- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
Paper Based: Overall minimum score of 575 (with minimum score 4.5 in the written test)
Internet based : Overall minimum score of 90 (with minimum score 20 in the written test)
- University of Cambridge and Oxford: Certificate in Advanced English or Diploma of English Studies
The selection of students is based on grades of academic courses.
This means that you don't have to submit recommendation letters or motivation letter when applying to this specific programme.
DSV's Master's Programmes start once a year, in September.
The application is now closed for programme start in the autumn of 2020. Next opportunity to apply is for programme start in the autumn of 2021. The application round is open from mid-October to mid-January. You will find exact dates on www.universityadmissions.se closer to the admission round.
Application online at the University Admission web site: www.universityadmissions.se
The University Admission web site contains all the information you need to be able to apply: key dates, documents you need to upload etc, and the staff will assist you with issues regarding the admission process.
Important information regarding the application process
Late application
If the admission is closed, you are not able to apply. Occasionally some programmes are open for "late admission" and in that case, it is indicated at www.universityadmissions.se
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) launched a new graphics chip on Thursday modified to crunch huge amounts of data, with potential customers in financial, engineering and scientific industries.
The new product, called FireStream, gives AMD an answer to a similar initiative launched by rival Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) this year to find broader uses for increasingly powerful graphics chips.
AMD's high-end FireStream 9170 uses a technology commonly found in graphics processors to speed performance.
AMD is introducing a high-performance chip package that uses a technology commonly found in graphics processors, called parallelism, and applies it to general purpose computing, the company announced Thursday.
Parallelism breaks computing work into individual tasks that are worked on by a processor concurrently, or in parallel, instead of one after the other, as many general purpose processors do today.
Parallelism has been in use for a long time in graphics chips from companies like ATI and Nvidia. AMD, which bought ATI last year, said the technology also works well for some types of mathematical computation, so it is using it to speed up other applications.
Called the FireStream 9170, the chip package is aimed initially at high performance computers (HPCs) like those used by scientists for climate research and oil exploration, and by financial analysts for advanced number crunching. But it could also be used more widely in the enterprise for tasks like video-editing and security tasks, AMD said.
The 9170 will be priced at US$1,999, making it one of AMD's most expensive products, but it offers up to 500 gigaflops of computing power, according to AMD, or about 100 times the performance of one of its dual core Opterons. It will be offered in new computers, but it could also be added to an existing server or workstation with a PCI Express 2.0 x16 interface.
Software applications will need to be modified to take advantage of the FireStream's architecture, and AMD will release a software developer kit along with the chip package for application tuning.
AMD calls the computing style Stream Computing, and it began life at ATI before it was bought by AMD. ATI announced the first Stream product last year, but AMD didn't work hard to promote it. It is throwing more weight behind the second iteration.
The FireStream is being manufactured on an advanced, 55 nanometer manufacturing process and will use a "double precision" floating point technology for scientific and engineering calculations. The processor board includes 2G bytes of GDDR3 (Graphics Double Data Rate 3) RAM, a type of memory designed by ATI, and consumes under 150 watts of power, AMD said.
AMD also announced it has joined Hewlett-Packard's HPC Accelerator Program, suggesting the product will be offered in computers from HP.


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[Aside: Italy invaded SEP. 3. 43] We have invaded "toe" of Italy. Just 4 years since the war started. In England it is to be observed as a day of prayer ("Give us, O Lord, courage, gaiety, and a quiet mind" RLS [Robert Louis Stevenson]). My heart is heavy with the thought of all the lives still to be sacrificed. Bitter resistance and fighting is expected, we are getting nearer to Germany by land as well as air. Denmark is under Martial Law. Some Dan[ish] fishing boats were sighted off this coast yesterday. Strings of orders came through about them in case they tried to land.
It is a lovely morning, sunny and peaceful as it was on that Sunday morn. four years since. How much has happened since then of both loss and gain, lives sacrificed, cities and towns and villages bombed as well as ships and armies. Great progress in medicine and surgery and in aviation. Money is flung about in millions, even we with our small income are better off than we have ever been in money matters, taking the whole year round. I fear there will be want and poverty after this in spite of all the Utopian schemes and promises.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) – words from his Prayer 'For Success', written in Samoa, re-published in Vailima Papers and a Footnote to History, p. 7 (1925). A much-quoted portion is 'Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.'
The British Declaration of War with Germany was announced by Neville Chamberlain on 3rd September 1939.
Have you read an introduction to May Hill & family (includes photographs) and explored 'The Casualties Were Small'?


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(On Windows Vista and Windows 7, the Tribes Repack installer must be run as administrator in order to function.)
Also, recent changes on my server are:Changes in release 5 (June 21, 2010):
-Added some new client-side files required for certain rpg servers.
-Changed default controls (reversed W and CTRL+W, were prev-weapon and next-weapon respectively).
-Removed mp3check.exe (useless file from when rpg mod was new).
-Hackfix 1.7.6 (small changes and bug fixes).
-Added repack version to installer.
-Installer no longer replaces the following files: config.cs, clientprefs.cs, play.gui, rpgserv.cs, serverprefs.cs
-Bot numbering system changed, number is not used if the bot is number 0. Number is per-bot-class now instead of shared across all bots.
-Added Hell Keep in the Keldrin world, at Jaten Outpost.
-Added Hellish Cave in the Norrath world, near Lakeside.
-Switched the server from running on a Windows 2000 virtual machine to running straight off Linux. The result is a small stability improvement.
-Added "block" spell, creates a magical barrier for 20 seconds.
-Limited spawndis inside dungeons, requiring certain amounts of crafting skill. Limits AFK training that's been too rampant these days.
-Added an optional tab-menu based NPC chat mechanism. Turns all NPC conversations into menus.
-Fixed reverting from #eyes while meditating.
-Rearranged the tab menu, more commonly used menus are now on the first page.
-Redesigned Limbo to look more RPG-like.
-Belt dropping is improved. Refreshes your weight, and the menu stays up after dropping items (unless you dropped your last of said item).


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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- Two of three men charged drove a car with a novelty license plate that said "Terrorista #1" and the third described himself on YouTube as an "average guy."
To those who knew them, Dias Kadyrbayev, Azamat Tazhayakov and Robel Phillipos didn't seem like the type of guys to impede the Boston Marathon bombing investigation or to lie about what they did, as prosecutors charged Wednesday. The three friends, all 19, all studied at the University of Massachusetts and are close to the surviving bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
James Padgett, who also lives in the same dorm as Tsarnaev, said Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were seen often in their BMW. "Everybody knows them because of that car with the Terrorista plate," he said. "They peel in doing like 70, and you know it's them coming."
The plate, on Kadyrbayev's car, was a gag gift about his penchant for partying, said his attorney Robert Stahl.
Alex Robles, a friend of Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov and Tsarnaev, said the three enjoyed having a good time. "They're funny guys, good guys, real into music and cars," said Robles, of New Bedford, Mass. "They just laughed and told stories like normal college students. Nobody ever talked about hating America."
Phillipos, who graduated from the prestigious Cambridge Rindge and Latin School with Tsarnaev, spoke of making a difference. In a YouTube video done for a class assignment, Phillipos talks about what he'd do if he got rich. In the video, uploaded March 2012, he said, "I wasn't too poor, I wasn't too rich. I was, you know, an average guy."
But he spoke of helping the poor, having gone to Africa and seen "the depths of hell" among the poor: "I can definitely see myself giving a lot of money. Not only money, but actually trying to make a difference."
After the bombing, friends said the men and Tsarnaev behaved normally. "Dzhokhar looked tired, but he didn't look scared or worried," Robles said.
Nothing seemed out of place when Elma Bahytovich, 19, of New Bedford, ran into Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov and Dzhokhar the day after the attacks. "Dzhokhar said it was a 'crazy day' the day before," she said. "He was just laughing like usual. He wasn't even nervous."
She was shocked when she saw the suspects' photos and knocked on Tazhayakov's door. "Azamat was like, 'Go home, it's not him. Don't say you've seen him,' " she said.
Wednesday, Bahytovich had a second thought about her friends' car plate: "It was a joke, like a hip-hop thing. But if they helped a terrorist, it's not a joke."
Lindsey Pierce, a neighbor of Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, called the two "sweet kids" who loved washing their BMW and playing music: "They didn't seem to have jobs, but they lived the student life: girls, cars, just being young and on their own. They're not terrorists."
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by Richard L. Provencher
3/11/2009 / Poetry
Here 'n There
Lupins bloomin'
in June
aside traveled
gravel roads
shaded purple
and reddish-white
clustered in bunches
a friendly
Jellyfish bob, they
bob and bump like
bumper cars
at the carnival
their tangerine faces
bloated and float
string-fingers that
linger and dangle
as arms from a
spaghetti jangle.
Richard L. Provencher 1993
first Published June/July 1993
Vol 1 No 4 ISSN 1192-280X
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Hopewell, Nova Scotia
Richard enjoys writing poems; many of which have been published in Print and Online. He and his wife, Esther are also co-authors of stories and a print novel. They are "born again" Christians and very busy in their church, Abundant Life Victory International, in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia.
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The armed forces mourned a grim toll in 2012 when more troops took their own lives than died in combat, but a precarious question remains: Why is the rate spiking when military life has long been a suicidal deterrent?
Among the services, the Army lost the most active-duty members last year to suicide: 182. Inside that branch, as two wars raged then waned, the annual suicide pace climbed. During 2001, nine out of every 100,000 active-duty soldiers killed themselves, while, during 2011, the suicide rate was nearly 23 per 100,000, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Compare that sobering trend to conflicts and peacetimes past. During the final three years of World War II, the Army's annual suicide rate didn't budge above 10 soldiers per 100,000, and during the Korean War in the early 1950s, that annual pace remained at about 11 soldiers per 100,000, according to a study published in 1985 by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Between 1975 and 1986, the Army's annual suicide rate averaged 13 deaths per 100,000 soldiers, falling to as low as 10 in the early '80s, according to series of papers published in the journal Military Medicine. The Army's suicide rate in 2001 was less than half that for all American males (18.2 per 100,000). Since then, the pace of self harm among active Army troops has more than doubled — and that trend is not ebbing: In January, the Army classified another 33 deaths as "potential suicides" among active-duty, National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers, according to the Department of Defense.
"A once-protective environment has moved to be something very different," said David Rudd, co-founder and scientific director of the National Center for Veteran Studies based at the University of Utah.
"We need to look at the big picture to really understand what's going on today, but we all too often lose historical perspective," said Rudd, who testified before Congress on the issue last month. The Army's suicide pace between 1975 and 1985 should be viewed as the branch's "baseline" rate, he added.
What has led modern soldiers to become twice as susceptible to suicide?
'The self-esteem generation'
Some answers lie in present military lifestyles and in the multiple deployments of soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan — but also in stark psychological distinctions between today's 20-somethings and the mindsets of past generations, according to Rudd and to veterans of recent and past U.S. combat actions.
"The fact is, nobody really understands what it means to be at a wartime, operational tempo for more than a decade," Rudd said. "What that means for soldiers is: When they come home from those deployments, they're never really off duty.
"They get block leave for a month or so when they get back (from war) and then they're right back in the field, training. Even at home, you're away from your family. That level of disconnection is a big deal," Rudd added.
And at military garrisons on home soil, some service members stay and sleep in private quarters versus the packed barracks of long ago. Rudd said he was surprised to see such a setup earlier this year when he visited the 29 Palms Marine base in Southern California.
"They had their own TVs, no common areas. Entitlement has grown in younger generations and society has embraced that, giving in to the entitlement," Rudd said. The military has "made decisions in accommodating these kinds of requests for more privacy and more seclusion by isolating (soldiers) even further.
"This group is the self-esteem generation. My worry is they have not dealt with enough challenges, enough disappointments in life for many of them to build the kind of resilience that is foundational when you go to war," added Rudd. "This has led to many of us to having thin skin. That doesn't bode well when you go to war."
But suicide is not solely a military phenomenon, said Cynthia O. Smith, a spokeswoman for the Department of Defense, who described suicide as "a national public health problem" and the 10th leading cause of death for all Americans.
The Pentagon has, however, rolled out numerous anti-suicide strategies during the past three years, including a 35-percent boost in the number of behavioral, health-care providers who work in primary-care clinics or who are embedded with front-line units, Smith said.
"Suicide prevention is first and foremost a leadership responsibility. Leaders throughout the chain of command must actively promote a constructive command climate that fosters cohesion and encourages individuals to reach out for help when needed," Smith said. "Seeking help is a sign of strength."
They went through 'harder times'
But such collective emotional strength may be lacking in today's warriors when compared to past generations who were perhaps better steeled for battle by the epic financial hardships they faced at home, said Barry Hull, a retired Navy commander and former F/A-18 Hornet pilot who flew missions in the first Gulf War.
"Stress is all about coping skills. World War II was just as difficult as war today. But think about what the World War II (soldiers) had just come through: The Depression. What creates our coping skills? Trauma, difficulty, adversity," Hull said. "I'm not stereotyping individuals. I'm stereotyping populations. I'm not saying youngsters today are any less – don't misunderstand me. But our lives tend to be a little bit less adverse. We typically do not develop the coping skills that some of the older generations did.
"So you take a young, patriotic guy. He goes over (to Afghanistan or Iraq) and sees things he can't even comprehend. And so what does it do? He tends to feel the effects of that stress more fully because he has not developed the coping skills that the older generation has developed," Hull added.
One Iraq veteran who can speak intimately on the suicide epidemic is Andrew O'Brien, who was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and who knew a 19-year-old soldier — with a wife and child back home — who died in an explosion. That 2009 family tragedy left O'Brien asking: "Why couldn't it have been me?" In 2010, after returning to his Army base in Hawaii, O'Brien tried to kill himself by swallowing several bottles of pills, including sleep medication and anti-depressants. He awoke in a hospital the next day.
"That older generation, they went through harder times, the Depression, and they had so many worse things going for them. I feel like it made them more prepared," said O'Brien, who has written an anti-suicide guide and who is scheduled to speak this weekend in New Orleans about his experiences.
But among older and younger veterans, there is one common thread that perhaps leaves both groups vulnerable to post-war struggles, O'Brien said. It is a basic tenet of Army teaching and military character.
"We are trained to be selfless. Being selfless is good when you're deployed. You're constantly making sure you've got your buddy's back," O'Brien said. "But when you come back, it's not good. And you have to live for the rest of your life with survivor guilt, with the fact that we lost that person."
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By Marisa Taylor, McClatchy DC
The Drug Enforcement Administration has agreed to pay 14 contractors $500,000 to settle a lawsuit that accuses the agency of illegally requiring them to undergo highly intrusive lie detector tests to keep their jobs as translators.
The settlement appears to be the first time that a federal government agency has settled allegations involving contractors' lie detector tests since a 1988 law banned the use of polygraph screening for most private employees, said a lawyer for the group.
The 14 contract employees translated Spanish conversations collected during court-authorized wiretapping of the DEA's criminal suspects. They said they were barred from working after they failed or refused polygraphs.
The DEA did not acknowledge any wrongdoing, but it agreed to re-screen the plaintiffs without weighing lie detector results. The agency also promised to delete references to the polygraphs from government records.
"This will serve as a message to other government agencies," said Gene Iredale, the San Diego attorney who sued the DEA.
"The people who were involved in this case work hard and are of impeccable character. But because of a squiggle on a piece of paper and the poor administration of these polygraphs, they were humiliated and unfairly deprived of their employment."
More than 20 federal agencies, including the DEA, are permitted to polygraph job applicants and employees to determine whether they've lied about their backgrounds, McClatchy has reported. About 73,000 people a year undergo polygraphs to obtain federal security clearances. The U.S. government estimates that almost 5 million people have security clearances, although it doesn't say how many have been polygraphed.
Federal agencies have become more aggressive in polygraph-testing employees and applicants, not only since the Sept. 11 attacks but also since leaks to the media by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Yet most federal employees and contractors are barred from suing over security clearance matters in court. They're forced instead to seek recourse directly from the agencies that denied them jobs or security clearances based on the results of lie detector tests.
In this case, however, the San Diego-area translators asserted that the DEA wasn't permitted to polygraph them as employees of the agency's contractor. The translators also sued their company, Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators Inc.
According to public documents, the company separately agreed to pay more than $196,000 to one plaintiff and $93,000 to another and agreed to rehire them contingent on the DEA's re-screening. Three other settlements are confidential. The translators' suit against Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators Inc. is still proceeding in court for the other nine plaintiffs.
A 1988 law banned most private employers from polygraphing their workers because of scientific questions about the technique's reliability and accounts of employer abuses.
The law still allowed the federal government to polygraph its employees and applicants. It also lists certain intelligence and law enforcement agencies as permitted to test their contractors. However, it does not list the DEA. The agency countered in court documents that it was permitted to polygraph contractors because the law does not explicitly ban it. Even so, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller permitted Iredale to proceed with his lawsuit.
Before being polygraphed, the translators had undergone credit checks, screening interviews and criminal background checks. They did not have access to classified information, Iredale said.
In a sudden shift in January 2011, however, the DEA demanded that the company send the translators in for lie detector tests. Iredale said the agency instituted the practice after discovering that a translator was related to a criminal suspect. As a result, it polygraphed about 100 translators from the company, and 27 of them were told they'd failed.
The 14 plaintiffs in the lawsuit didn't know the criminal suspect, nor were they were implicated in any criminal conduct, Iredale said.
The DEA polygraphers, however, asked the translators very personal and even alarming questions about their lives, including about their sexual practices and crimes such as bestiality, court documents said. Twelve of the plaintiffs were told they'd failed their tests and two refused to be polygraphed. The company then told them they weren't permitted to work for the DEA and were laid off as a result.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement also barred eight of the translators from working on its criminal cases, but it agreed to reassess their employment as part of the settlement.
Lawyers for the DEA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators Inc. didn't immediately return calls requesting comment.
Iredale said the DEA hadn't tape-recorded the interrogations, even though it and other agencies generally do.
The DEA also used a lie detector, known as the LX4000, that government officials for other agencies told McClatchy they'd determined had inconsistent sweat measurements.
The manufacturer, Lafayette Instrument Co. Inc., described the phenomenon as "occasional" and "minor," but said it had fixed it anyway.
The problems with the LX4000 might have falsely triggered failures on the translators' tests, Iredale said. In one instance, a DEA polygrapher asked one of the plaintiffs to hold a hot plastic water bottle before he hooked her up to the lie detector because he was concerned that her hands were too cold for a sweat measurement.
"If you hold a hot water bottle, you're going to start to sweat," Iredale said. "Of course that could trigger a false reading."
Before suing, two of the plaintiffs wrote to the company to question the legality of the lie detector tests but their concerns were ignored, Iredale said.
The company bills itself as the largest U.S. provider of translation services to private companies, law enforcement and government agencies. It has offices in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, Atlanta and Washington.
All federal polygraphers are warned against engaging in unethical and discriminatory behavior during training at a federal academy. The academy also routinely inspects polygraph programs to ensure that their practices are in line with federal standards.
But critics say the inspections are cursory and often miss major problems. The academy inspected the National Reconnaissance Office, yet it didn't appear to pick up on a major internal controversy. In 2012, McClatchy detailed allegations by current and former polygraphers at the spy satellite agency that they were pushed to collect intensely personal information in violation of Pentagon rules and were rewarded with bonuses for doing so.
One former NRO polygrapher said he'd been pressured to interrogate a woman about her molestation as a child. In other instances, the agency failed to inform law enforcement agencies about confessions to crimes, including child abuse, according to a report last month by the inspector general for the intelligence community.


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Well yes and no. TO a degree you an fine tune a mojo bag to you needs with the right oils, but a Crown of Succses mojo bag is never going to be a powerfully protective mojo, its just not what its for.[/quote]cognitivedissonance wrote:Also, if I go with just the one mojo bag, and buy multiple oils, is it safe to anoint it multiple times to match those desired effects? I live like the proverbial rolling stone, so I don't have much space to work with for ritualism or altars, and so flexibility and portability is a pretty big necessity. I'm willing to give anything a shot, honestly, and I'm optimistic, so help me out and I'll give you a karmic hug!
Ok, so without getting a second bag to carry around, which seems a little redundant, what LITTLE things can I get? I've been carrying around a St. Benedict's Medal that seems to be doing it's job in a small way, it's not blessed or fixed in any way. What's the procedure to boost that up from just a medal into a proper charm?


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June Ambrose on Her New VH1 Show, Styled by June
On VH1's Styled By June, premiering March 19, celebrity stylist June Ambrose shows how she and her team at Mode Squad, Inc. take stars like Jaleel White, Mischa Barton and Aubrey O'Day from ho-hum to haute. But considering Ambrose has been working her magic for over 20 years, what took her so long to jump into TV?
"It was about finding the right voice," Ambrose explained in our Media Beat interview. "It is a formatted show, and I think that's what's going to surprise everyone. It's not just this random reality of my life. You're in my 'Juniverse,' yes, but in that 'Juniverse,' I take you through the process. I have this very strategic process that I take with each client every week. I break it down into three steps, and in that three steps you're going to get to see the beginning, a middle and the end of emancipating, or redefining, them through a new look."
We also got the fashionista to dish about her new eyewear line with Selima Optique and what fans can expect from her upcoming women's collection.
Part 1: June Ambrose on Styling Diddy, Jay-Z and Hip-Hop's Most Iconic Videos
Part 3: June Ambrose on How to Become a Fashion Stylist
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JazzReview review by Glenn Astarita
Trio Viriditas – Live At Vision Festival VI (CF 115)
The band's fruition began in 2000 during German native and multi-reedman Alfred Harth's residence in New York City, when he aligned with bassist Wilber Morris and drummer/vibraphonist Kevin Norton. Sadly, in 2002 Morris passed away. But, the trio's performance and recording endeavors sparked a great deal of interest and excitement within the global jazz community. It's a facet that continues thanks to this 2008 release, culled from the group's 2001 gig at New York City's Vision Festival and serves as a glowing reminder of the musicians' astonishing synergy and seemingly endless flow of ideas. Here, depth and cunning use of space signify just two components of their resonating developments within the free-form and progressive-jazz realms.
Enhanced by the superb live audio transfer to disc, the trio is a multitasking machine, anchored by Morris and Norton's polytonal rhythmic underpinnings. And it's a democratic engagement where Harth's clarinet and sax lines profess a variety of probing storylines amid his band-mates' oscillating pulses and call/response mechanisms. In effect, the musicians cast a horde of emotive aspects, whether its Harth's gruff and edgy tonalities or when Norton paints quaint little portraitures via his deft vibes work.
They merge a somber tone with a bluesy gait, accelerated by Harth's plaintive cries on the aptly titled "Melancholy." However, the trio adds another dimension to the program, largely due to Harth's concise pocket trumpet excursions atop a staggered beat, evidenced within the smack and jab parameters of "Viriditas Waltz." Moreover, the artists engage in furious improvisational exercises, complete with abrupt spikes and melodically tinged movements. Sure enough, the unit moves forward with the grace of a deer navigating through a forest while also depicting the knockout punch of a heavyweight champ defending his title. There's lots for the mind's eye to ponder throughout this irrefutably, persuasive outing.


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"The bigger they are, the harder they fall" might have applied to some individual behemoths during the hey-day of the dinosaurs, but it also held true for the rock from space that did them in.
As best we can make out, a 10 kilometer wide asteroid struck the Earth along the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula back then and produced a shockwave and fireball of unfathomable scale. As tsunamis swept across the Gulf of Mexico and wildfires raged, huge amounts of sulfur (from rock vaporized by the impact) and soot were lifted into the air, blocking sunlight from reaching the surface. With the fires followed by cold and greatly diminished photosynthesis (sunlight might have dropped by 80 percent), ecosystems collapsed.
To make things worse, when the skies cleared after a few years to a decade, the sulfur may have acidified the surface ocean. The long-lived greenhouse gases that came from the vaporized rock took over, producing sustained warming for millennia at least. Oh, and incredibly massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian subcontinent were already messing with Earth's climate before the impact. It was a cruel pendulum of extremes.
Some of this story is clearly written in the geologic record, but other details come from a theoretical understanding of the consequences of an impact of this scale. Take that long winter, for example. We expect it must have happened because of the amount of material that would have gotten kicked up into the atmosphere, but it's difficult for the rocks to record a change in climate that would have lasted a few decades at most. It gets even trickier when you remember that many of the plankton that can contain climate indicators were busy going extinct. A study led by Utrecht University's Johan Vellekoop, however, has managed to extract some details from rocks along the Brazos River in Texas that tell us about that "impact winter".
Those rocks include sediments deposited in the aftermath of the impact. There's a layer of tsunami-deposited sand beneath finer-grained sediments that settled slowly to the seafloor after that. It's possible that the temperature contrast between the colder atmosphere and still-warm ocean fueled strong storms, and this may have stirred some of that sediment back up. That complicates the effort to figure out how long it took for those layers to be deposited.
Still, other research has estimated that these storms should have died down within less than a century, so the layers were interpreted to represent the first few decades immediately following the impact event.
Conveniently, there's a climate indicator they could look for in those rocks. Although the calcium-carbonate-armored plankton usually used for this kind of thing are missing, the researchers could turn to an organism that leaves no preservable body parts. Microbes called Thaumarcheota may not build shells, but the composition of the lipids in their cell membranes depends on water temperature. And they're chemosynthetic, deriving energy from ammonia rather than sunlight-driven photosynthesis. Those lipid molecules are pretty resilient and can be analyzed in marine sediments—even those that have turned to rock.
The analysis indicated local sea surface temperatures of 30-31°C prior to the impact. The data from the post-tsunami layers are a little variable (possibly due to the stirring up of the sediment by storms), but it records temperatures fully 2-7°C cooler than that. After that, temperatures rose to 1-2°C higher than they had been before the impact.
That matches the expected pattern of climatic upheaval and is the first direct evidence of a phase of colder temperatures, although there is also some evidence of cool-water plankton moving towards the equator. That helps increase our confidence that the terrible story we're telling is the right one.
PNAS, 2014. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319253111 (About DOIs).


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Avian Aerofoil profile upright with rubber back. These uprights are made to fit straight on to a limited selection of small Avian hang gliders without the need for tools.
This upright will fit an
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It is important to check the length of your upright on your glider and make sure that you purchase the correct length of upright. These uprights are too short for most Avian hang gliders. They fit a smaller A frame suitable for smaller pilots.
Please note the condition of your double button spring pins. These sometimes fail and a spare is a good idea.
Sometimes with sideways failure of an upright is possible to damage the other upright or upright casting at the same time. Check the castings for damage they sometimes crack! and should of course be replaced.


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I heart Veggie Grill <3
I apologize in advance that 1) I'm veering away from my typical beauty posts and 2) I'm reviewing a local, LA area vegan restaurant ('cause I know my readers come from all over the world) but I'm so beyond excited about this restaurant and I want you all to be aware of the amazing vegan possibilities regardless of which city you live in. If you don't live in the LA area, I think you'll still enjoy viewing my drool-worthy foodie pics.
Okie doke folks, if you do live in the LA area, get your keisters to The Veggie Grill! This vegan restaurant has burgers, salads, soups, desserts, etc. and it's far from wholesome hippie food; it's rich, sinful-tasting comfort food that's affordable and quick.
Okay, for an appetizer, I suggest you try these Chill Out Wings which come with tangy barbecue sauce and chipotle ranch sauce. If I wasn't such a sophisticated eating out partner, I'd drink these sauces all by themselves – they are that yummy! These chicken wings are strikingly chickeny and I dare you to fool your non-vegan peeps with these. They are perfectly breaded and and textured like the "real" deal.
This might possibly be one of my favorite sandwiches ever! The All-American Stack comes with grilled veggie steak, Thousand Island dressing, pickles, lettuce, tomato and it's topped with crispy onion rings. It comes with a side of slaw but I substituted that out for some sweet potato Sweetheart Fries (with chipotle ranch). Now let me be clear this is not diet food. This is hungry food. This food will satiate your rumbling tum tum and make meat eaters jealous. Why? Because it's tastier than the "real" thing and eating vegan versions of meat decreases your chances of getting cancer, heart disease, diabetes and dare I say… impotency.
This Grillin' Chicken sandwich is what my hubs ordered but rest assured I got my grubby lil' hands on it and took some hearty bites. This sandwich has grilled chillin' chicken, avocado, lettuce, tomato, red onion, cilantro pest and chipotle ranch on a wheat roll. In all honestly, it was delish but I liked my All-American Stack better. I think any sandwich that has onion rings will always come out the winner. Again, the faux chicken tasted extremely chickeny and the pesto sauce on this sandwich was YUM.
Even though this isn't a standard VBR post, remember that eating vegan food helps make you beautiful on the inside (your intestines will glow and your heart will smile)
For more info: Veggie Grill
West Hollywood (the location I frequent)
8000 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone 323.822.7575 | hours 11am to 11pm
Plaza El Segundo
720 Allied Way, El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone 310-535-0025 | hours 11am to 10pm
University Center – Irvine
4213 Campus Drive, Irvine, CA 92612
Phone 949.509.0003 | hours 11am to 10pm
Irvine Spectrum Center
81 Fortune Drive, Irvine, CA 92618
Phone 949.727.9900 | hours 11am to 10pm
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oooooooh i love your post! it is making me so hungry, i may have to go to veggie grill for lunch today!
i have never had the chill out wings, but they look daaaaaaaayumn good.
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Not afraid to appear dumb here, obviously lol. I have 2, 50 amp outlets at the pedestal. My boat has one receptacle for the power cord from the pedestal. Inside the boat I have 100 amp box
So there is one, 50 amp service cord coming into the boat. Question is when the central heat an air operates. What does that leave for my,frig, ele. stove, lights tv hot water heater etc. I understand I have not given you make model size an serial number of the above , obviously its an ambiguous question.
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Nine years later, we're about to get our first taste of DVD's even higher-quality successors, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc. There are plenty of fine points separating the two formats, but both can deliver an unparalleled home theater experience - one that combines high-def pictures with high-rez 7.1-channel audio formats developed especially for these discs. And the advanced interactive features that both Blu-ray and HD DVD bring to the table will make the extras we currently enjoy on DVD look like kid stuff. With so much going for each format, it'll be hard to choose which machine to take home - but most folks will make that decision based on how many movie titles become available for each over the next few years. After all, a player is just a player, but content is king.
Getting Physical: The Discs The new high-def discs are decidedly different creatures from DVD. Most important, they won't work in a DVD player (both HD DVD and Blu-ray players, on the other hand, can handle regular DVDs and CDs). But both types of disc are 12 centimeters in diameter - the same as DVD. And an HD DVD has the same physical construction as a DVD, with two 0.6-mm substrate layers (only the top one contains data) bonded to make a single disc. Blu-ray discs, in contrast, have a single substrate with the data layer residing close (a mere tenth of a millimeter away) to the bottom surface. Since this proximity makes the data layer susceptible to nicks and scratches, the initial Blu-ray design called for a protective caddy - an idea that was eventually scrapped when a scratchproof coating was developed.
A newly developed blue laser, with a shorter wavelength than DVD's red laser, allows both formats to store a lot more data on a disc. (See the diagrams above and below.) An HD DVD can hold three times as much as a DVD, while the even smaller beam spot size in Blu-ray players enables those discs to hold five times as much. As with DVD, multiple data layers allow even more information. For example, a dual-layer HD DVD can contain 30 gigabytes of data, enough to hold up to 8 hours of high-def video - plenty of room for the entire Terminator trilogy. And depending on what type of encoding is used, a 50-GB dual-layer Blu-ray disc could handle all three installments of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings cycle!
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Hello all, my current experiments involve using THP-1 cells that have been differentiated into immature dendritic cells. According to the literature, this is done by incubation of the cells for, from what I can tell, a minimum of 5 days in 100ng/mL GM-CSF and IL-4, replacing the media every 2 days.
Following this, we attempted stimulation of the cells with LPS (14.5umol/mL) and the results were poor. The cells did not respond the way an iDC should respond to LPS stimulation; we saw only a modest amount of TNFa after 48 hours and no IL-12p70.
I'm currently trying to trouble shoot the experiment. The cells were (and continue) to grow suitably, though at only half the rate at which ATCC says they will. The only thing I can think of that may have affected the differentiation was the handling of the cytokines; the GM-CSF and IL-4, after being diluted in media, were filtered through a 0.2um filter. I'd thought this wouldn't affect the cytokines, but perhaps I was wrong. Any thoughts?
For reference, here is the complete media we're using, not including the GM-CSF and IL-4:
2. 0.05mM β-2-Mercaptoethanol
3. 10% Fetal Bovine Serum
4. 1mM Sodium Pyruvate
5. 1X Pen-Strep (100IU/mL Pen, 100ug/mL Strep)
6. 2 mM L-Glutamine
Our freezing media is 90% FBS and 10% DMSO; we have ~85% viability after thawing.
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This fall, there's much to covet at perfume counters.
My No. 1 choice: Givenchy's Dahlia Noir. The first fragrance developed under creative director Riccardo Tisci, this floral chypre scent, in a decidedly unfussy bottle, is based on rose, iris and mimosa with woody facets such as sandalwood, patchouli and tonka bean. The 1.7 ounce eau de parfum is $90.
Says Givenchy: "Dahlia Noir embodies a mysterious and atypical woman."
Full-on floral: Tom Ford's Violet Blonde is "a new scent for a new era of feminine glamour" as represented by model Lara Stone. Compositional elements include violet, of course, along with pink pepper, mandarin, iris, jasmine, musk, cedar and vetiver. VB is $100 for 1.7 ounces of eau de parfum; available exclusively at Saks. Through Sept. 18 or while supplies last, online customers will receive a Violet Blonde eau de parfum mini with any Tom Ford purchase.
Sexy strength: The new fragrance from Francis Kurkdjian, Aqua Universalis forte, combines bergamot, Sicilian citron, white flowers, Egyptian jasmin, Moroccan roses and light wood notes. It's citrusy and fresh, regal and sophisticated. $155 for 2.4 ounces of eau de toilette.
Elegance inside and out: Kurkdjian was also the creative force behind Elie Saab's first fragrance, which has notes of orange blossom, jasmine, patchouli, rose and cedar. I love the bottle, designed by Sylvie de France; $90 for 1.6 ounces of eau de parfum. The ad campaign features Anja Rubik.
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iCarAsia: Accelerating time to market and boosting employee engagement with Google Cloud
About iCarAsia
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, iCarAsia provides websites and applications that connect buyers and sellers of new and used cars.
iCarAsia reduces deployment time, expands operations, and uses a machine learning-powered chatbot to interact with customers by using Google Cloud technologies.
Google Cloud Results
- Decreases software deployment time, replacing biweekly updates with immediate new feature availability
- Reduces inter-application communication times
- Offers opportunities to engage with customers and supplement traditional support roles with a machine learning-powered chatbot
Reducing server response times from up to 400 milliseconds to 60 milliseconds
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, iCarAsia provides websites and applications that connect buyers and sellers of new and used cars. The business has 500 employees across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. Its websites attract more than 8 million visits from car buyers and enthusiasts each month.
iCarAsia brands in Malaysia include the car classifieds service Carlist.my and the motoring editorial property Live Life Drive. In Indonesia, the business runs the automotive classifieds property Mobil123.com and the news service Otospirit. In Thailand, iCarAsia operates the car listings service one2car.com, the classifieds website Thaicar.com, and the car enthusiast website Auto Spinn.
The business also offers capabilities through its applications and websites for car dealers to create listings, respond to leads from customers, and access real-time analytics.
"The primary key performance indicator we track is generation of a qualified lead to a seller," explains Pedro Sttau, Chief Information Officer, iCarAsia. "We measure this by counting the number of people who click on a car listing with intent to contact a seller. Near mid-2018, we were achieving click-through rates of about 35,000 per day."
iCarAsia emerged from a series of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of similar businesses across South East Asia. As the new organization emerged, its IT leaders decided the cloud was the best fit for its infrastructure needs. "When the business started, we were expanding into multiple markets with centralized technology," Sttau explains. "We needed an elastic solution that could expand or retract quickly in line with our M&A strategy and performance."
Google Cloud Platform boosts performance and reduces cost
In 2014, iCarAsia moved its applications and services to a multinational cloud service. However, changes to withholding tax in Malaysia threatened to make the service prohibitively expensive. As cost negotiations with the cloud provider continued, iCarAsia started engaging with Google. The company's technology team benchmarked Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and found they delivered considerable improvements in performance and cost.
These improvements included substantial reductions in the 30 to 60 minutes required to undertake a software deployment, inter-application communication times, and server response times of 300 to 400 milliseconds. iCarAsia also saw opportunities through Google Cloud automation to move from biweekly software deployments to a more dynamic schedule—delivering new products and features faster to customers and boosting engineers' morale and engagement with the business.
"The Google account team made us feel like we were really being taken care of and that Google was interested in our business. Moving to Google Cloud was a no-brainer for us."—Pedro Sttau, Chief Information Officer, iCarAsia
GCP move "a no-brainer"
iCarAsia then calculated the time and resources needed to move its applications and services to Google Cloud Platform. The simplicity of Google Cloud Platform services and expert support from Google's technical and account teams made iCarAsia's decision easy. "We wanted a provider that had a new solution, operated infrastructure in the places we wanted to establish a presence, was less expensive, and provided migration support," Sttau explains. "Furthermore, the Google account team made us feel like we were really being taken care of and that Google was interested in our business. Moving to Google Cloud was a no-brainer for us."
Move completed with in-house resources
iCarAsia started its migration in November 2017 and moved all live applications across by March 2018. The business plans to move the remaining back-end processing jobs to Google Cloud by the end of the year. iCarAsia's Head of Engineering, Zeeshan Khan, and two in-house engineers undertook the move with assistance from Google. "We tested and benchmarked with one of our less-trafficked websites, and based on the outcomes, decided to move our entire architecture to Google Cloud," Khan says.
Kubernetes Engine key to architecture
Kubernetes Engine is the cornerstone of iCarAsia's Google Cloud Platform architecture. The business is now running containerized applications and services in clusters controlled through the orchestration and management service. Cloud resources are provisioned automatically based on descriptions of compute, memory, and storage requirements. Khan and his team monitor application health from a Kubernetes Engine dashboard in Stackdriver, with additional monitoring and support provided by Google site reliability engineers.
Kubernetes Engine also provides the security required by Khan and his team to protect iCarAsia's applications. In addition, an auto-scaling feature enables iCarAsia to manage peaks and troughs in demand without compromising availability or performance.
iCarAsia is also using the TensorFlow open source machine learning framework and the Dialogflow Enterprise Edition conversational interface development suite to develop and test a chatbot. "We are testing a chatbot we envision will engage with our consumers and supplement some of the traditional customer support roles we have with our products," Sttau says. "We hope to roll this out within the next two years."
"We gained the ability with Google to undertake deployments from any location, which makes our lives much easier as engineers."—Zeeshan Khan, Head of Engineering, iCarAsia
Deployment times down from an hour to 30 seconds
Moving to Kubernetes Engine has enabled iCarAsia to reduce deployment times to as low as 30 seconds and significantly reduced inter-application communication times. "These are huge improvements," Khan says. "In addition, we gained the ability with Google to undertake deployments from any location, which makes our lives much easier as engineers."
Furthermore, iCarAsia has undertaken deployments any time a new feature is ready for production. This will improve agility and its engineers' perceptions of their importance and value to the business.
"As a CIO, the last thing I want to do is worry about workplace applications—I want to be building products and generating revenue. G Suite allows me to do that."—Pedro Sttau, Chief Information Officer, iCarAsia
G Suite enables CIO to focus on business projects
iCarAsia's use of Google Cloud solutions also extends to the use of G Suite intelligent applications to nearly every employee within the business. "Gmail is the best product out there, while the storage solutions in Google Drive are extremely valuable," Sttau says. "Security and backup concerns are removed as well.
"As a CIO, the last thing I want to do is worry about workplace applications—I want to be building products and generating revenue," he adds. "G Suite allows me to do that."
With Google Cloud and G Suite technologies in place, iCarAsia is motoring to an exciting future. "The mission of our various businesses is to become the largest and most trusted automotive buying, selling, and information entities in the ASEAN region," Sttau says. "We see Google playing a key role helping us realize that goal."
About iCarAsia
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, iCarAsia provides websites and applications that connect buyers and sellers of new and used cars.


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TITUSVILLE, Fla. – The Brevard County School District has suspended 10 Titusville High School baseball players over their version of a viral video, "The Harlem Shake."
All ten students were suspended from school for at least two days after the school district said their video featured obscene gestures.
Eight of the students have been permanently kicked off the Titusville High School baseball team and two others received two-week suspensions from the team.
In protest of the suspensions, other Titusville High students broke out into the dance in the school parking lot Friday morning.
School administrators said the 10 suspended students are accused of wearing their baseball team uniforms and making obscene gestures while performing the dance at the school's baseball field, then posting the video online.
Students told WKMG the video was blown out of proportion and that they're outraged over what they call a "harmless Harlem Shake."
"We made the video not knowing this, all this would happen, it was a joke," said one of the suspended baseball players, who asked that his face not be shown. "It just doesn't make sense to me how they can have that much of repercussions over a stupid video that everybody is doing."
Students supporting the suspended players, played the "Harlem Shake" song from their cars Friday afternoon with the words "Free THS baseball" painted on their car windows.
"We were just trying to have fun and it was a team thing and we're all gone now," said one of the suspended players.
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Students can appeal their suspensions. The north area superintendent will hear the appeals next week, according to Brevard school officials.


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Dec 10, 2012, 06:05 ET
WAYNE, Pa., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryan & Maniskas, LLP (www.rmclasslaw.com/cases/uti) has commenced an investigation into potential securities law violations by certain officers of Universal Technical Institute, Inc. ("UTI" or the "Company") (NYSE: UTI). The investigation focuses on allegations that certain statements issued by the Company regarding the Company's business, operations and financial condition were false and misleading.
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UTI provides postsecondary education -- including undergraduate degree, diploma and certificate programs for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians -- through its campuses in the United States. The investigation is related to allegations that certain statements issued by UTI were false and misleading concerning the Company's business and operations.
On November 28, 2012 UTI announced that in September it received a Civil Investigative Demand from the Massachusetts Attorney General relating to the pending investigation of a false claims allegation related to student loans, guarantees, and grants. Particularly, the government action relates to allegations that UTI caused false claims to be submitted to Massachusetts relating to student loans, guarantees and grants provided to students at the UTI's Norwood, Massachusetts campus. This adverse information caused UTI's stock fall 28% on November 28, 2012.
If you purchased UTI shares and would like to learn more about these claims or if you wish to discuss these matters and have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights, contact Richard A. Maniskas, Esquire toll-free: (877) 316-3218 or visit: www.rmclasslaw.com/cases/uti. You may also email Mr. Maniskas at [email protected]. For more information about class action cases in general, please visit our website: www.rmclasslaw.com.
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This Republican behavior is so crazy, I almost couldn't write a limerick about it.
Republican lawmakers in Michigan, a state which eliminated tax credits for children last year, have proposed a tax credit for unborn foetuses of 12 weeks gestation…
Critics said the proposal was "absurd" and described it as a backdoor way of trying to pass "personhood" legislation which would give rights to an embryo and crack down on abortion.
The irony-impaired Rep. Jud Gilbert, R-Algonac said:
"You're recognizing the fact that people have additional expenses, another person to take care of."
Michigan's Fetal Shenanigans (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A Republican law now forbids
Tax credits for Michigan kids,
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Liverpool edge Swansea in 7 goal thriller
Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Henderson scored two goals apiece as Liverpool registered...
(SportsNetwork.com) – The Portland Trail Blazers didn't score 100 points in
their last game, but it was enough to propel them to victory.
Portland is the highest scoring team in the league with 108.3 points per game
and will host the Charlotte Bobcats Thursday night at Moda Center.
The Blazers recorded an important 98-94 win at Oklahoma City on Tuesday in a
battle between Western Conference heavyweights. LaMarcus Aldridge recorded his
18th double-double with 25 points and 14 rebounds, while Damian Lillard also
recorded a double-double with 21 points and 11 assists.
Lillard made 4-of-10 3-pointers and became the first player in the league to
reach 100 in that category (102). Portland, which was playing on consecutive
nights, overcame a 16-point deficit and received 16 points from Wesley
Matthews and 15 out of Nicolas Batum.
"Obviously, that was a terrific win to get a game like this on the road during
a back-to-back against the best team in the league right now," said Blazers
coach Terry Stotts.
Portland ended a two-game losing streak and won for the eighth time in the
last 11 tries. The Blazers will also welcome Philadelphia to town and have a
12-3 mark in the Rose City.
In other team news, Blazers rookie CJ McCollum is still recovering from a
fractured foot suffered in training camp, but was assigned to the Idaho
Stampede of the NBA Development League. McCollum was the 10th overall pick in
the 2013 draft out of Lehigh University.
Charlotte is mired in a four-game losing streak and fell to 0-3 on a five-game
road trip after Wednesday's 112-85 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. Al
Jefferson posted his seventh double-double in the last eight games with 14
points and 12 rebounds. He has 12 double-doubles in the last 17 games.
Kemba Walker also scored 14 points and three other Charlotte starters finished
in double-digit scoring. Gerald Henderson (12), Anthony Tolliver (11) and Josh
McRoberts (10) rounded out those scorers for the Bobcats, who are 6-9 away
from home and played well in the first half. The Bobcats shot 51.3 percent
(20-for-39) in the first half, including 36.7 percent (4-for-11) from beyond
the 3-point line.
"We played a great, championship-caliber team tonight," Charlotte head coach
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in the second half."
The Bobcats were outscored, 25-13, in the third quarter and by a 31-16 margin
in the final stanza.
Charlotte will close the trip Saturday at Sacramento.
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